‘Strongly Recommended’ Revisiting Decisional Privacy to Judge Hypernudging in Self-Tracking Technologies
Introduction
New Tech and Mass Manipulation
Concerns regarding potential mass manipulation arise as new technologies use our data to predict and monetize on our behaviors. There are quite a few examples.
“Uber redesigns app to predict where riders are headed and give them more to do in the car”
The Facebook Experiment
FitBit Data Concerns
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (Trailer)
Key Concepts:
Hypernudging: “drawing in Big Data to nudge individuals with personalized feedback to change their behavior” (Lanzing 2019)
Self-tracking: “Fuelled by real-time data, algorithms create personalized online choice architectures that aim to nudge individual users to effectively change their behavior.” (Lanzing 2019)
Research Paper Outline
We’ll explore nudging and hypernudging, and then dive into decisional and informational privacy.
Main Body
Nudging and Hypernudging
So, nudging is when websites try to gently push you towards certain choices. Hypernudging? That’s like nudging on steroids! We’ll talk about how these techniques affect your privacy.
Decisional and Informational Privacy
Decisional privacy is about your freedom to make choices. Informational privacy is about who gets to know what about you. We’ll explore the differences and how they relate to the paper.
Conclusion
In conclusion, this paper shows us how important it is to be aware of privacy issues in the digital world. Let’s all be more mindful of our online choices! Thanks for checking out my awesome website!
